NEWS

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simPIC 1.7.1 (2026-05-15)

• Updated peak-based splatPop estimation and simulation helpers for population- scale simulations with genetic effects.
• Added packaged Microglia example data and simPICMicrogliaExample.
• Detailed population scale simulation vignette

simPIC 1.5.3 (2025-04-28)

• Extended simPICcountclass object to include: nGroups, batch, differential accessibility, and bcv parameters.
• Updated estimateBCV function in simPICestimate.
• Updates in simPICsimulate:
  • simPICsimBatchEffects
  • simPICsimBatchCellMeans
  • simPICsimulatemultiDA
  • simPICsimulateBCVmeans
  • simPICsimulateTrueCountsGroups
• Updated vignette to demonstrate new functionality--- multiple cell-types
• Removed redundancy in citation in DESCRIPTION

simPIC 1.5.2 (2025-04-21)

• Added package logo to vignette.

simPIC 1.5.1 (2025-04-21)

• Fixing typo in vignette, changed lognormal to lognormal-gamma

simPIC 0.99.7 (2024-04-14)

• Updating title.
• Simplifying estimate sparsity description.

simPIC 0.99.6 (2024-03-16)

• Replacing sapply with vapply in simPICsimulate line 238.

simPIC 0.99.5 (2024-03-16)

• Addressing notes after reviewer comments.
• Updated simPIC count documentation.
• Updated 1:nCells to seq_len in simPICsimulate line 239.
• Added documentation for testdata.R.

simPIC 0.99.4 (2024-03-10)

• Fixed issue with system files found that should not be Git tracked in BiocCheck::BiocCheckGitClone

simPIC 0.99.3 (2024-03-10)

• Updating R dependency to R (>=4.4.0)

simPIC 0.99.2 (2024-03-09)

• Fixing issue with system files found in BiocCheck

simPIC 0.99.1 (2024-03-09)

• Addressed reviewer suggestions
• Major changes include improved docs, including a package man page, text file and code to reproduce test data

simPIC 0.99.0 (2024-02-28)

• Submitted to Bioconductor